My daughter used to be a great sleeper, I would put her down in her cot and she’d go straight to sleep, have a dream feed at 11 and sleep through til about 7.
For the past few weeks it’s all gone to shit. She will only fall asleep in my or my partner’s arms and wakes up and starts screaming the second we try and put her down. We repeat this over and over again between about 7pm and midnight, at which point she’ll normally sleep for a few hours then wake up and need to be cuddled to sleep again.
Tonight we tried to start the “gradual retreat” method and tried to soothe her to sleep via patting, shushing, stroking etc in her cot while we sat next to her. Mostly she pulled herself up to standing and cried. After 3 hours of crying she got so worked up she was hyperventilating and could hardly breathe so we picked her up. Now we’re back to square one. What do I do??? I start my masters in q couple of weeks and will need evenings to study, I can’t spend the whole night in her room cuddling her in the dark. I’m so emotionally drained.